Braden Peters, better known by his “looskmaxxing” persona Clavicular, walked off his interview with “60 Minutes Australia” correspondent Adam Hegarty after he was asked if he identifies with the incel community.
“Do I identify as an incel?” Peters said. “I mean, how could you ask me that question as a follow-up after you asked me about my relationships to women. I mean, that’s quite literally the worst sequence of questions I think I’ve ever heard.”
Hegarty pressed on, “Let me rephrase then. Looksmaxxing was obviously a term created by the incel community. How do you feel about being linked to that group?”
“I’m not linked to that group in any way,” Peters replied. “Looksmaxxing is self improvement, right? So it’s about potentially even ascending out of that category. So that would be kind of one of the goals is to disassociate from being an incel and overcome that. So that doesn’t make sense.”
Hegarty then shifted gears to Peters’ relationship with the highly controversial “manosphere” influencer Andrew Tate, who is currently facing charges of rape, assault and human trafficking in the U.K. He asked Peters, “Why do you spend time with people like that?”
“I see you want to make this political,” Peters answered. “Too bad I didn’t have time to look into, you know, anything about potentially, you know, who your wife cheated with, but don’t try to go down that line of questioning with me.”
Hegarty then said, “I’m not married.” Peters then concluded before walking off, “So I could teach you about looksmaxxing, and then maybe you could switch that up. Thanks for the time, appreciate the interview.”
